the last cairo post

Well whaddya know....Cairo Airport has FREE wireless all over.

So yeah - I'm at the airport. Waiting for my flight to Singapore. Don't ask why, but I'm all checked in and waiting in the departure lounge a whole 2 hours early. Insane, I tell ya!

So the last few days have been crap. In terms of my "last few days in Cairo". I've convinced everyone including myself that I'll be back in Cairo in a month or so, so I haven't really seen all my friends, or said goodbye properly. On my last night, I had Smiley's for dinner. Definitely not what I had in mind for the 'last supper', but hell, I'm banking on having another 365 dinners in Cairo starting March. And if I DONT come back...then I'm just going to be a very disappointed girl. 3 fabulous, crazy months ending in total anti-climax - I spent the last few days frantically finishing off work work, running errands and this and that. I don't know what I had in mind for my last few days, but it definitely wasn't that...

Packing was amazingly quick. Would you believe, 3 months here, and I'm basically going back with the same amount of stuff? 29 kilos! What an achievement, I must not be female. Sucks that I'm taking everything back with me though, I would've liked to leave it all here and bring back ANOTHER 30 kilos of goodies back to Cairo, but my situation is just too uncertain to do that.

I'm actually really excited about going back to Singapore. (Whoa, good thing this is in writing, otherwise noone would ever have believed I just said that) I'm looking forward to seeing my family, especially my sister and brother in law who are there at the moment. I haven't seen them in 4 months nearly and have missed them to bits. Alot of my aunts and uncles are

I'm sooooooooo excited about food. Oh my God....chicken rice, chicken chops, yakult, mushroom burgers, sago gula melaka....ooooohhhh my taste buds have missed flavour like a baby misses its mother's bosom. Which reminds me: Mum's cooking!!! I'm looking forward to the heat.....my last morning in Cairo was freezing! I can't wait to take a LONG-ass shower, where the hot water doesnt run out after 15mins, where water gushes like a waterfall....I haven't indulged in a long shower in ages. I deserve one. I also need sleep. Hardly slept the last 2 nights, trying to make the most of my time here.

Eeek my battery is gonna die any minute.